Hacker News: rekoil

New comment by rekoil in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3"

rekoil — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:25:20 +0000

That would be missing the point entirely though?

Asahi Linux is a project to provide an option to people who have for one reason or another got themselves an Apple Silicon Mac.

Building their own silicon would serve an entirely different goal.

New comment by rekoil in "Ten days later, Git on macOS still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates"

rekoil — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:34:20 +0000

Ahhh, true, SSH isn't the same certs, my bad... well, both Github and Azure DevOps default to HTTPS-based cloning anyway...

New comment by rekoil in "Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates"

rekoil — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:54:16 +0000

> probably some that are not going to ever get patched

This is a HUGE deal for embedded devices, we can now mitm HTTPS traffic on lots of embedded devices running Linux produced between 2018 and now.

New comment by rekoil in "Ten days later, Git on macOS still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates"

rekoil — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:20:45 +0000

So you target some host like ssh.dev.azure.com, find all the hooks in the proper repo the client is trying to access, make a new commit that puts your persistence payload in one of them that you expect will be executed soon, this script can additionally "correct" the git state when it finally runs, and moves its persistence to some more appropriate location.

Users will be none-the-wiser because they're not accessing these hosts through a web browser, and you net a few more compromised hosts in your inventory.

New comment by rekoil in "Ghostty 1.4"

rekoil — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:10:00 +0000

This is such an annoying quirk of macOS, I regularly SSH to some servers I need to get my password to from 1Password, and I am apparently incapable of re-programming myself to copy the password prior to starting the SSH connection, so what happens is I SSH, open 1Password quick access (which dismisses my Ghostty-adrum quick-terminal), copy my password, and then frantically spam my quick-terminal shortcut until I remember it's blocked because macOS has decided its not allowed in the current state.

Would be great if we could opt out a few pre-determined key combinations from this system, but I guess that's never happening.

Thanks so much for maintaining Ghostty tabbed quick-terminal by the way, you're a legend <3

New comment by rekoil in "Ghostty 1.4"

rekoil — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:03:46 +0000

Hear hear, I've been running adrums build for what feels like forever now, manually recompiling Ghostty from time to time because I can't use a terminal without tabbed quick-terminal in 2025 let alone 2026. It's a killer feature I can't work without.

New comment by rekoil in "Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates"

rekoil — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:25:54 +0000

It's pretty easy to compromise things like McDonalds or Starbucks WiFi hotspots though, just setup a Pineapple with the right SSIDs and a 5G modem, funnel your target domains through your mitmproxy via the DHCP DNS server you're providing, and that's basically it.

I agree it's not PHP2Shell, but its certainly not being "way overblown" here.

New comment by rekoil in "Gaming on Linux without cheating"

rekoil — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:25:00 +0000

In my mind these two worlds don't have to be incompatible with each other, I am fully aware of the issues with cheating in competitive online gaming and am ready to give up some freedoms to improve the quality of my experience, but I believe we can do this still using Linux clients.

I would not have an issue with having a "gaming kernel" installed that I can reboot to when I want to game, one that gives EAC and other similar softwares access to my hardware so they can do their jobs, I don't love it, but I'm ready to make that sacrifice because I have experienced gaming with rampant cheating.

The problem is nobody is providing that option, and game developers are instead actively excluding Linux as a target platform entirely, e.g. Apex Legends, a game that ran well on Linux until October 2024 when Respawn decided to actively block it from joining online matches by toggling a flag in EAC.

I want to get off Micro$lops wild ride please.

New comment by rekoil in "ESP32-C3 Adblock"

rekoil — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:40:08 +0000

"They were too preoccupied with whether they could, they never stopped to think whether they should"

Jokes aside, very impressive that it works!

New comment by rekoil in "Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours"

rekoil — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:31:20 +0000

I need to see end-to-end encryption on this service before I am in any way interested, it should be a "rendezvous service" connecting clients with servers only, with full end-to-end encryption between them, and Nabu Casa should have zero ability to control the server.

Build that and I'll be interested.

New comment by rekoil in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

rekoil — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:38:18 +0000

I had the 12 mini (before it I had an iPhone SE, then iPhone X, then the 12 mini), which unfortunately did not work for me because the battery drained too fast.

Really hope you're wrong and we do eventually get some more one-handed phones in the future, especially once battery tech evolves.

New comment by rekoil in "Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union"

rekoil — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:57:45 +0000

Not necessary, corporations can speak for governments these days, its all cool!

New comment by rekoil in "Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union"

rekoil — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:56:12 +0000

I think it explicitly avoids directly saying that the Commission has agreed this resolves the disagreements, again hoping public sentiment will drive the nail all the way.

I am really hoping this isn’t the end of it, general purpose computing devices need to allow its user to choose the security model, in my opinion the entire industry fundamentally depends on it, and without that freedom we will have monopolies deciding everything sooner or later.

New comment by rekoil in "Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union"

rekoil — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:32:35 +0000

Only if consumers would pay it, which isn’t something we can really know.

New comment by rekoil in "Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed"

rekoil — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:49:21 +0000

What's out there?

New comment by rekoil in "Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout"

rekoil — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:44:29 +0000

Awesome! Been looking for something like this for so long, thanks so much for making it!

Tried it and it seems to work for the most part, but one app where it would be really helpful to me is Ghostty.app, specifically the quick-terminal, and it seems that it doesn't currently handle that, which is unfortunate.

New comment by rekoil in "Due to DMA, Siri AI delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27"

rekoil — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:03:54 +0000

Right, and to be specific, what they also leave out is that the DMA only mandates that third-party providers can request access, the user can be in full control without breaching the rules set by the DMA.

New comment by rekoil in "Intel Arc Pro B70 Review"

rekoil — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:03:43 +0000

I bought an Arc A770 expecting that this feature would materialise based on it being available on other contemporary Intel GPUs, but it never did.

Does the B70 definitely support SR-IOV from day one?

New comment by rekoil in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"

rekoil — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:48:25 +0000

They have a new type of core on these they refer to as a "low-power efficiency core", which is probably what is enabling these "feats", but as one of the parents to this comment points out we're comparing Windows configured in "Ultra Efficiency" mode to Apple Silicon MacBooks at most configured in Low Power mode...

Anecdotally, comparing to recent (but still older than these) generations of Intel chips I can run my M2 Max MacBook Pro with 78% battery health for longer (without any special considerations) than colleagues running their Windows Intel laptops in Power Saver mode, while performing similar tasks.

New comment by rekoil in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"

rekoil — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:59:55 +0000

Yeah I think if they manage to solve that then we're gonna be cruising. I want to but can't really run AsahiLinux as it stands, my workstation is Thunderbolt-based and that's non-negotiable.